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When I was using the combineXPOs.exe executable the other day on a new project, I ran into an issue. The error message thrown by the tool was the following: CombineXPOs.exe : Warning [-5] CombineXPOs.exe : Error [<pathToXpo>] Length cannot be less than zero. I remembered that Martin Dráb ran into the same error […]

“Good release management practices ensure that when your software is built, it will be successfully deployed to the people who want to use it. You have the opportunity to satisfy existing customers and hopefully to win new ones.” It’s a statement coming from a excellent article dicussing 7 ways to improve your releases. Before continuing […]

This is the third post in a series discussing automated releases for Dynamics AX 2012 with ReleaseManagement for Visual Studio 2013. Before, we discussed the following topics: Part 1 discussed the pros and cons of ReleaseManagement and gave a glimpse on how we would fit in Dynamics AX. With part 2 , a first tool was created. This […]

Today I saw that the TFS build had triggered the ReleaseManagement client but that it had failed. A closer look at it told me that TFS thought it had been waiting long enough and decided that the deployment failed. So I went to the ReleaseManagement client and tried to increase the timeout for TFS Triggered […]

In part 1 of this series, we discussed the pro and cons of Release Management for VS2013 and scratched the surface of how we are going to use it with Dynamics AX. As that post has been there for a while, new updates have been available for Release Management (RM from now on) adding some […]

In a previous post I mentioned Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 but I didn’t take the time to go through the capabilities and why I was using it. We have spent some time on creating automated builds for AX and these are up and running for while now using the code activities from Joris De […]